Let’s see if we agree on our favorites; what follows are thumbnail sketches of why these are my favorite Philadelphia museums:

• Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, www.barnesfoundation.org. So many Impressionists. Glorious pastel colors with 181 Renoirs, the most anywhere, with a little bit of an edge to the Picasso’s and Van Gogh’s. This place leaves your insides all gushy.

• Edgar Allen Poe Museum, 532 N. Seventh St., nps.gov There is something bloody under the removable floorboards and there is a black cat hidden in a wall. Fun place.

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• Fabric Workshop and Museum, 1214 Arch St., www.fabricworkshopandmuseum.org. It’s not just convention fabric anymore. Even horse hair has been used to make art. On a guided tour, I stepped on, and broke, a piece of displayed art. That tour ended quickly.

• Fort Mifflin, Fort Mifflin Road, www.fortmifflin.us. I love visiting, not so much because of the Revolutionary fort, which is way cool, but when the wind is just right, jumbo jets landing at the airport scream just feet above the fort.

• Insectarium, 8046 Frankford Ave., www.phillybutterflypavillion.com. Eat a meal worm and let a scorpion or tarantula climb all over you at an exterminator’s headquarters. Tons of live bugs are so creepy. New last year, there is now a butterfly pavilion.

• Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania, 1 N. Broad St., www.pamasonictemple.org. Although the Order of Freemasons is a “secret” society, the guide will tell you to Google for answers. Amazing both inside and out.

• Mummer’s Museum, 1100 S. Second Street. www.mummersmuseum.org. Those outfits are as bright and colorful inside as they are outside on Broad Street. Stop by for regular performances by Mummer’s bands.

• Museum of the American Revolution, 101 S. Third St., www.amrevmuseum.org. Washington’s headquarters for most of the war, his tent is dramatically displayed. There is also a moving recreation of the Battle of Brandywine, including smoke.

• National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St., www.constitutioncenter.org. Features a fabulous theater-in-the-round presentation. It’s eerie, but you can walk through replicas of life-sized founding fathers.

• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry streets, www.pafa.org. The building itself is a beautiful piece of art. Claes Oldenburg’s oversized “Paintbrush” is outside, but don’t miss Thomas Eakins’ “Gross Clinic,” the first painting depicting a live surgery. The Philadelphia Art Museum is co-owner, and the two museums take turns hosting this masterpiece that once hung in Jefferson Medical College.

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, www.philamuseum.org. At the head of the Parkway, or “Museum Mile.” You can run up the Rocky Steps out front for the best view of the city, and then just try to catch your breath when you come face to face with Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.”

• Philadelphia History Museum at Atwater Kent, 15 S. Seventh St., www.philadelphiahistory.org. The old and the new. Joe Frazier’s boxing glove, a glass used by Ben Franklin and what is likely the Wampum belt gifted by Native Americans to William Penn are located here. You can also walk across a huge map of Philadelphia.

• Philadelphia Magic Garden, 1020 South St., www.phillymagicgardens.org. Isaiah Zagar combined thousands of broken plates, cups, and even a few bicycle wheels to make this the most eclectic display in the city. Where else but on South Street?

• Rodin Museum, 2151 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. rodinmuseum.org. My favorite museum in the city. The Thinker and Gates of Hell are visible from the Parkway and that should be enough, but there is so much more inside. Get close and check out Rodin’s fingerprints on his sculptures. Rodin’s work with hands is amazing. I always wonder what the bride is thinking when I see wedding parties shooting photos in front of those tormented figures on the Gates of Hell.

• Second Bank of the United States, 420 Chestnut St., nps.gov. There is nothing but early portraits at this classic building. The only two men pictured on currency who were not presidents – Hamilton and Franklin –hang next to each other here.

• Thaddeus Kosciuszko Monument, 301 Pine St., nps.gov. The home of a Polishy patriot is the smallest National Park Service site in the whole country. In 2015, only 1,261 people visited.

• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Antropology, 3260 South St., www.penn.museum. The huge Egyptian Sphinx in the basement is way cool, but I most enjoy the library with built-in ladders. Although it’s not always open to the public, the library looks like it’s right out of an Indiana Jones flick.